DENMARK: After Whom the Deluge?

To celebrate his return to the U.S.,
Ambassador Josiah Marvel Jr. thought he would give the kind of party
Copenhagen's diplomatic corps would not so soon forget. It was a
costume ball at which the guests came in the peasant garments of their
native land. To set the proper mood, the ambassador had tethered a live
cow in the hall of "Rydhave," the stately ambassadorial lodge.

This, thought Denmark's Communist daily, was too good to overlook. The
ambassador's "escapist" party, crowed Land og Folk, pointed an ugly
moral. Said Land og Folk: "It makes one think of other festivals...